Episode 0229: "Yiddish on Stage and Screen: Allen Lewis Rickman Gets 'Serious'"

22/08/2019 31 min
Episode 0229: "Yiddish on Stage and Screen: Allen Lewis Rickman Gets 'Serious'"

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Allen Lewis Rickman, producer, director, and performer of Yiddish theater, joins The Shmooze to talk about his work translating Yiddish for the stage and screen--from his work on the Cohen Brothers' "A Serious Man" to his recent translations and performances of two little-known Yiddish plays, "Breach of Promise" and "One of Those," to his production "Tevye Served Raw."

Episode 0229
August 25, 2019
Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, Massachusetts